China's little entry into Afghan security

POST: China Tip Toes Into Afghanistan, Strategy Page, September 7, 2009

Another small sign of China's growing realization that its strategic interests in Afghanistan require something beyond just foreign direct investment.

(Thanks: Terry Collier)

Comments

[Jacob]

As China starts to invest more time in training people, do you see them starting to expand and offer help more in the general issues of Afghanistan? Do you see them offering a much larger force to the SysAdmin force?

[Tom Barnett]

Yes, but they will need to be drawn out by us in the process. They have no desire to get stuck with things, but want to help in a way that--naturally--impresses the world.